miguee dinner
Miguee Dinner - Miguel de Icaza is in town for ECMA conference, and so is Sam Ruby.
Dare “Carnage4Life” Obasanjo, organized the dinner. Omri Gazitt, Lee Fisher, and Dr. GUI rounded out the Microsoft contingent. This was the first time meeting Miguel or Sam.
Miguel is hyper-energetic, charismatic, and very sociable. We got to hear about his acting/directing career, and he told us about the things they do to pigs in Boston. He is an extremely smart guy. Sam was pretty cool too; he is kind of like Dr. GUI in that they both have vaguely-defined jobs, so they get to just mess around and do whatever they like. We all discussed Mono, open source, and other similar stuff. The low point was when I got a button pushed somewhere and launched on an impassioned tirade against the anti-human evils of the GPL, so we had to change topics for awhile. Hopefully Sam was not too offended. The whole “semantic web” thing is not resonating so well with people yet, either. But with so many technical people there, and such a wide range of experiences and views, the conversation was really interesting.
Pete Ferriera just pointed out that I was wrong about Kool Keith. For some reason, I thought that Dr. Dooom came before Octagon. I still think that Spankmaster and Dr. Dooom are his best stuff, but it turns out that Keith didn’t really do themes until Nakamura. So that kind of hurts my overall argument…